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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin on education

Education is all a matter of building bridges.
Ralph Ellison on education

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins on education

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert Anthony on education

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne on education

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Galileo Galilei on education

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana on education

An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great on education

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
Alice Miller on education

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Al McGuire on education

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant on education

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
Maynard James Keenan on education

Your library is your paradise.
Desiderius Erasmus on education

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine on education

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
Anthony J. D'Angelo on education

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Charles Caleb Colton on education

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
Jean Piaget on education

America is the best half-educated country in the world.
Nicholas M. Butler on education

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead on education

It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus on education